The Bible › Bible in Basic English › Deuteronomy 28
Deuteronomy 28:39
You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.
Deuteronomy 28:39 · Bible in Basic English
← PreviousRead Deuteronomy 28Next →
Deuteronomy 28:39 in other translations
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
Every translation above is public domain and free to share. Other versions — NIV · ESV · NKJV · NLT · NASB · CSB · AMP — are copyrighted and open on their publishers’ partner site.
In context
36 And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.
37 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.
38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.
39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.
40 Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.
41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.
42 All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.
Read Deuteronomy 28 in the app The whole chapter